“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”~ Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981

Quote of the Week: TEA PARTY WARNING!!

Watch out, Tea Party Nation: you’re in danger of losing your soul! Newt Gingrich is not one of you. He is not your friend. He is an imposter. He will destroy you just like he almost single-handedly destroyed the Conservative Revolution of 1994.

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Jen said almost the same thing on her weekly segment of the Steve Deace show.

Remember that recent poll saying that the tea party was more popular than the Republicans and Democrats? Well no more, and Jen and Steve discusses where they think the tea partiers made their major mistakes.

Doug, please listen to the show and then let me know if you think Jen is right.

The first-ever National Tea Party Convention meets in Nashville, TN. The conference brings together activists and affiliated groups seeking to build influence and gain momentum for the Tea Party movement. The first session’s program included a dinner discussion led by Fox News’ Angela McGlowan and World Net Daily’s Joseph Farah.
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House Minority Whip Eric Canton (VA), Mitt Romney, and Jeb Bush who talked about education, health care, energy, and the economy during a town hall meeting. The National Council for a New America, a new GOP grassroots caucus, sponsored the meeting on important issues to the Republican party.

“There needs to be a purging of the movement, and I think we’re already starting to see a different of hierarchy of groups,” said Erick Erickson, the Macon, Ga.-based founder of RedState.com, who predicts that “you’re going to see a much more diffuse conservative movement that is being led in large part from outside of Washington and is much more in line from the grass roots.”

Erickson, a favorite of the new activists, said, “Some of these legacy groups have become so entrenched in the Republican establishment in Washington that a lot of these new activists don’t think they can trust them.”

As examples, Erickson singled out CPAC’s primary sponsor, the American Conservative Union, as well as CPAC stalwarts like The Heritage Foundation think tank and the groups headed by Grover Norquist and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Those groups and other organizations that once formed the vanguard of the conservative movement — such as the National Rifle Association, the Family Research Council and Young America’s Foundation — haven’t made major inroads in the tea party movement.